Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich NietzscheI love him who desireth not too many virtues. One I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgettethvirtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of himself, and all things are in him: thus all things becomea knot for one’s destiny to cling to.his down-going.I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thusand doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however,causeth his down-going.desireth not to keep for himself.I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by onefavour, and who then asketh: “Am I a dishonest player?”— out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they heraldthe coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.for he is willing to succumb.I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drophis deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is the superman.—he seeketh his own down-going.I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeththe past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the5present ones.I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth WHEN ZARATHUSTRA HAD spoken these words, he again lookedhis God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his at the people, and was silent. “There they stand,” said heGod.to his heart; “there they laugh: they understand me not;I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, I am not the mouth for these ears.and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn towillingly over the bridge.hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums25